The Media won't dare show you this one...

Chris Felice

[ChrisFelice1]

It's a shame that little old Chris Felice has to do the media's homework for them. As some of you are aware, there was a new Abu Graib prison scandal story that came out this week.

As we all know, the Democrats and their accomplices in the mainstream media are keeping this scandal percolating in the likely event that President Bush wins in November. This way, they can open the door to a possible impeachment of the president because of this "so called" scandal.

Anyway, the new Abu Graib story was written by Professor Steven Miles, a Dr. at the University of Minnesota. He writes that Military doctors were complicit in the "torture" of Iraqi detainees.

Well, I have done some research on this Dr. Miles and it just so happens that he gets major grants from none other than the SOROS FOUNDATION...whose president is George Soros.

Now, if we use the same logic that the media and the Democrats do with the "Swift Boat Vets" Ad...(That they MUST be lying because they were funded by a Texas republican)...then, this entire study conducted by Dr. Miles has to be a lie too...(Since a wealthy Democrat supporter bankrolls him)

This is another example of the liberal slant in the mainstream media.

It's sad that THEY are able to uncover that the "Swift Boat Vets for Truth" are funded by a wealthy Republican, but they DON'T uncover that Dr. Miles' study, which is aimed at hurting Presidnt Bush, has been funded by a wealthy DEMOCRAT!

Hypocricy.

Next time, just do your homework.

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

Please provide the back up documentation to your claim. thanks

[Mark]

Welcome to FR.

[killjoy]

I wouldn't be so quick to discount it just because he receives money from the Soros Foundation. I would read the report first. Discounting it out of hand is quite dangerous.

[Mark]

Mr. Soros has been a naughty boy.

[ChrisFelice1]

Faculty and Staff

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Steven Miles, MD


Steve Miles' latest book:

The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine
Hospital Bed Safety Working Group (HBSW) Bed System Entrapment Dimensional
and Assessment Guidelines

Professor, Center for Bioethics; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School.

E-Mail: miles001@umn.edu

Download CV (word format)


Steve Miles is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, faculty in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the University Council on Aging at the University of Minnesota.

Steve Miles began his career in bioethics at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) as the first medical student member of its "Thanatology Committee" in 1975. During his Internal Medicine residency at HCMC, he and Dr. Ronald Cranford worked on a model DNR policy that was adopted by the hospital and the state medical society. Dr. Miles and colleagues introduced the term DNR into the literature in 1981. During his residency, Steve took several courses in ethics at United Theological Seminary. After his residency, he>was medical director for a large Cambodian refugee camp. On his return to the United States, he was drawn to Geriatric Medicine especially for persons with dementia or advanced chronic disease. He joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1986 where he taught ethics at the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics . He returned to HCMC and joined the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota in 1990. In 1995, he transferred his clinical work in geriatrics to St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center.

Dr. Miles has served in many positions including: President of the American Association of Bioethics (AAB) on the Board of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, co-editor of Law Medicine and Ethics, and as a leader in forming the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He has served on the Board of the American Refugee Committee.

He has received major grants from the Soros Foundation Faculty Scholarship Program for the Project Death in America as well as from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Pew Foundations' Health of the Public Program, and a Henry Kaiser Foundation Faculty Scholarship. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities.

He has an international career spanning twenty years including serving as chief medical officer for a Cambodian refugee camp, medical school curriculum development in Cuba, to current work on AIDS prevention in Sudan, and service as chair of the research committee of the Center for Victims of Torture.

Steve's clinical studies have focused on end-of-life care. His policy work has focused on the need for health care reform. He is best known for his work on end-of-life care, the development of portable advance directives, and restraint reduction in hospitals and nursing homes. He has been active in state and national health care reform, including service with President Clinton's Bioethics Working Group on Health Care Reform.



WEBSITE: http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/miles_s.shtml

[bad company]

If You gotta source, I've got someone to abuse.

[killjoy]

Just dug up the following link that talks more about it:

U doctor questions ethics in Iraq

[noodler]

Constant Hypocricy.This prison was the scene of horrific "events" in the past and not to be repeated.The young nuts who did the one's so publicized did not cut off limbs or heads or shed blood.This makes us weak in the mind of monsters.Those "so inflamed" go home to their porno and watch worse anyday.They sit on their rose ass and criticize and try to disturb an entire direction by the actions of a few which in previous wars would have not come out intil much later.

[ChrisFelice1]

The members of the media are looking at this through the prism of a John Kerry win. They see this as something that hurts our morale, in which case, will help secure a Kerry victory. Good news on the war is bad news for the Democrats.

[noodler]

The bio you posted is very admirable at first glance.I certainly have no knowledge otherwise and I didn't go to cambodia or participate.There was that deal about him into end-of-life procedures or therapy. So what. He's a hero in my book.Now if he starts running for President.. that's another matter. I'm going to want to see what he really did.

[noodler]

Agreed.Often we speak to ourself.It's much more safe that way. We ...I was going on but thx for the article.I will admit something and a request. If you a are still here.

[ladyinred]

Thanks Chris! You are so right, there is no way the media will report this. I do have problems understanding the logic of President Bush being impeached because of so called "torture" of terrorists however. But logic and democrats are not in the same universe are they?

[Doc On The Bay]

"President Clinton's Bioethics Blah-blah-blah----"

'Nuff Said.

This guy is a WHORE--& MAYBE, also, a PHONY!

Just Because an individual has "Academic Credentials;" He/SHE ISN'T Necessarily an "Expert" in ANY GIVEN FIELD.

Unfortunately, Many Charlatans with "Legitimate Degrees" claim "Expertise" in areas of which they have NO knowlege!

One must Carefully research the "Claims" of ANY "Expert" before giving "Credence" to any "Claim!"

Doc

[noodler]

Ah Chris is off making a sandwich maybe.

[thegreatbeast]

If he ain't a commie, I don't know one.

[noodler]

That's what I would do if some-anything perports,presents hisself as worthy of high office.Investigate.

[noodler]

Purports.As in purports to be something one isn't and so much time goes by and one has gotten away with so much they actually believe it.

[grey_whiskers]

Just a tinfoil hat idea, not a troll.
(Remember, this is tongue-in-cheek, NOT in earnest).

Did J F'n K's campaign have something to do with seeding
and promoting the Abu Graib scandal . . .

Some of the more exaggerated charges there seem eerily
similar to J F'n K's testimony before Congress in 1971.
Maybe he wanted to prepare for similar charges today
to satisfy his more rabid supporters; or prepare a
measure of defense against his 1971 congressional testimony
("See, I wasn't so nuts--the military is still doing the
same thing today.")


Asbestos shield ON: I tuned out all coverage of the Iraq
prison scandal shortly after hearing of the torture of
wearing women's underwear, for two reasons:
a) there are people on Jerry Springer / Howard Stern
type shows fighting for their RIGHT to do this;
b) it's old and lame. You can find similar actions
recounted for comedic effect in The Decameron
(think of an Italian Chaucer).
So I know I'm ignorant of the scandal. I'm posting
because I can get more information more quickly from
being flamed than I can laboriously looking up the
relevant sites one at a time on my own . . .

[noodler]

Good points and true If you get flamed.There are so many points and articles to be attracted to these days...I fear there will be too much a wirlwind of uncertainty like thru the clinton years.That is, not enough emphasis on getting one transgression pinned down before going to the next.